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Sea Flashcards

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Sea cliff

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Cliffs of Mohar Co. Clare

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Sea cave

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Cliffs of Mohar

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Sea arch

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Old head of kinsale Co. Cork

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Sea stack

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Ballybunion Co. Kerry

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Sea cliff

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Cliffs of Mohar Co. Clare

Benwee head Co. Mayo

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Blow hole

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Mc Sweeney’s gun Co. Donegal

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Spits

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Port Marnock Co. Dublin

Bannow Bay Co. Wexford

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Bars

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Lady’s Island Lake Co. Wexford

Loch Muiri Co. Clare

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Tombolos

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Howth Co. Dublin joined to Sutton

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Bay and headland

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Dublin bay and howth head Co. Dublin

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Hydraulic action

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Erosion by the power of moving water

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Compressed air

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Air in the rocks

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Abrasion

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Erosion by the seas load

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Attrition

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Erosion of the seas load

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A bay

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A large curve in open into the coast. Dublin bay

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A headland

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A piece of land sticking out into the sea. Howth head co. Dublin

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A sea cliff

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A high rock face that slopes very steeply up from the shore

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Sea caves

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A large hole or tunnel at the foot of a cliff.

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A sea arch

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An archway in a rocky headland

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A Sea stack

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A pillar of a rock near the coast

21
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A sea stump

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Remains of a sea stack when it’s eroded

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A blow holes

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A hole which joins the roof of a cave to the surface above.

23
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Transport by the sea

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The shingle carried by the sea is called load
Or
Load is moved:
Up the shore by the force if moving incoming waves and back down the shore
Along the shore by Longshore drift

24
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Longshore drift

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Waves approach the shore from the side
Swash pushes up the beach at an angle
Each backwash drags some of the material straight into the sea
As process repeats, material is transported along the sea in a zig-zag motion

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Grounds

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Low walls built the stop Longshore Drift

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Sea deposition

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The sea drops it’s load where the power of the wave is reduced

27
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Beaches

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Smash pushes material up the beach. Backwash carried some of the load back

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Sand dunes

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Large mounds at the back of beaches formed by the wind. Marram grass is planted in the sand dunes to prevent the sand invading near by land

29
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Spits

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Formed by Longshore Drift. A narrow ridge of sand juts out into the sea while the other is connected to the land. Made of shingle. Port marnock. Co. Dublin

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Bars

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A spit may grow until it reaches the other side so the bay, former spit now known as Bar. A lagoon is a small artifice lake that gets trapped behind the bar. E.g. Lady’s Island Lake, co. Wexford

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Tombolos

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Narrow ridge of sand and shingle that joins an off shore island to the main land. A spit may grow in length until it reaches a near by island. Howth, Co. Dublin joins to Sutton

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